Torture Enters the Courtroom
By Andrew P. Napolitano For the first time in American history, a federal judge last week authorized the government to admit as evidence in a…
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15 States Are Moving to Curb Public Health Agency Powers Following Lockdown Carnage
By Jon Miltimore Mike Fratantuono grew up in a restaurant. Literally. For decades, Sunset Restaurant in Glen Burnie, Maryland, was the family business. Over the…
Massachusetts School Committee Allows Real-Time Crime Center To Monitor Students Live
By MassPrivateI How does a school committee respond to a year of remote student learning? How will the Springfield, MA School Committee respond to post-COVID…
The War Over Genetic Privacy Is Just Beginning
By John W. Whitehead “When you upload your DNA, you’re potentially becoming a genetic informant on the rest of your family.”— Law professor Elizabeth Joh…
Lawsuit Accuses Digital Recognition Network of Secretly Collecting Billions of License Plates
By Derrick Broze A recently filed lawsuit accuses Digital Recognition Network of covertly collecting vehicle data on millions of Americans and selling it for a…
Maryland and Montana Pass the Nation’s First Laws Restricting Law Enforcement Access to Genetic Genealogy Databases
By Jennifer Lynch Last week, Maryland and Montana passed laws requiring judicial authorization to search consumer DNA databases in criminal investigations. These are welcome and…
Ring Changed How Police Request Door Camera Footage: What it Means and Doesn’t Mean
By Matthew Guariglia Amazon Ring has announced that it will change the way police can request footage from millions of doorbell cameras in communities across…
How Is This “Surveillance”?
Op-Ed by Karen Stewart FBI Fusion Centers claim they are “surveilling potential threats” to U.S. Homeland Security, so they need ever-increasing budgets and growth –…
King County Washington Bans Facial Recognition
By Michael Maharrey SEATTLE, Wash. (June 2, 2021) – On Tuesday, the Metropolitan King County Council unanimously passed an ordinance banning the use of facial…
Make Way for the Snitch State: The All-Seeing Fourth Branch of Government
By John W. Whitehead “It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the…
DeSantis’s Anti-Riot Law Undermines Two Important Constitutional Freedoms
Op-Ed by Rachel Altman When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spent the last year resisting draconian COVID-19 lockdown orders, I applauded his commitment to individual liberty….
3 Bills Introduced to Protect Citizens from Vaccine Mandates and Discrimination, Privacy Violations via “Vaccine Passports” (Ohio)
By B.N. Frank Ohio is one of 4 states where COVID “Vaccine Lotteries” have been created by government officials to encourage citizens to “take the…
We’re All Targets of the Biden Administration’s New Pre-Crime Surveillance Program
By Robert Wheeler Recently, the Biden Administration announced the establishment of what is essentially a pre-crime surveillance program. This program comes as no surprise to…
Total Tyranny: We’ll All Be Targeted Under The Government’s New Precrime Program
By John W. Whitehead “There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America.”― James Bamford It never fails. Just as we get a…